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About This Game

Michel Ancel, celebrated creator of Rayman®, Beyond Good & Evil®, and the Raving Rabbids®, returns to his roots to bring us Rayman® Origins: a high-definition, 2D side-scrolling, platforming adventure with full four-player co-op!

Play Rayman Origins and discover or rediscover the magical universe and legendary 2D gameplay that captured the hearts of millions of fans...

When the Glade of Dreams is overrun by “nefurrious” Darktoons, the Fairy Council hastily invokes Rayman to save the day; but the hero of light isn’t quite all there…To help him, Rayman teams up with his best friend, Globox, and two crafty wizards, the Teensies. Together, the world’s most hilarious team of heroes will need to restore peace to the Glade, or watch as their beloved home vanishes like a bad dream...

Key Features

Rebirth of a Platforming Legend: It’s been 15 years since the initial launch of Rayman. Rayman Origins brings back many of the classic characters, revived in their original 2D form, as well as a whole new world of characters and environments.

Four-Player, Jump-In/Jump-Out, Co-op Gameplay: Play as Rayman in the solo campaign, or have up to three friends jump in at any time to play as Globox or as one of the two Teensies. Players can leave at any time without affecting the others’ progression.

Unique Approach to 2D Art: A rich world with over 100 characters and 12 unique environments created by some of the video gaming’s most reputed artists and animators. This creative approach to 2D design will recapture the hearts of platformer fans and introduce a new generation to one of the industry’s best-loved characters in his original 2D form.

A Vast Playground: Rayman Origins includes over 60 levels of 2D platforming gameplay designed for all ages and playing styles. Unlock new abilities progressively and return to previous levels to discover new paths and secrets.

Variety of Gameplay: Rayman Origins is a platformer at its core, but it has elements of many game genres. Rayman, Globox, and the Teensies gain unique abilities as they progress through the adventure, including swimming, diving and the sensational “HairlyCopter.” The game also features many elements of action, adventure, and beat-’em-up gameplay.

Epic Boss Fights: A giant pink monster with hundreds of eyes... A possessed, mountainous golem... An evil daisy-cum-carnivorous plant...Rayman Origins will put players to the test with these and many more challenging boss battles!

A Handful of Highly Talented Artists and Engineers: Rayman Origins was developed by the UBIart team in Montpellier and is built on an open-source game engine - the UBIart Framework - designed by Michel Ancel to allow much smaller teams of artists and developers to produce incredibly high-quality graphics and gameplay quickly and efficiently. This garage-game approach has led to great strides in creativity and innovation.

Rayman Origins is just as the name suggests, a return to the origins of the franchise, which started as a 2D platformer, and also brings back a few of the earliest designs and concepts used in the first Rayman game.I fell in love with Rayman after playing Rayman 2: The Great Escape, and after that, Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc.I never actually played the original Rayman more than the first level, i did not enjoy it, i am not a 2D platformer person.But since this year marks Rayman's 20th birthday, i decided to play this game, and wanted to actually finish it, which i did.

The game is very enjoyable, even for someone who doesn't really plays 2D platforming games, i can even call it very fun.It has lots of levels, with different themes, and different playstyle to many of the levels, like running levels, where you must be as fast as possible to reach an enemy/cage/etc, there are shooting levels, where you fly on a mosquito that shoots, plain old classic platforming levels, as well as boss fights, which you must avoid the boss' attacks, and then hit him in a weak spot.The engine could use some polishing, but it works just fine, except some parts where you might get stuck on a ledge or stuck inside an enemy, but these are pretty rare and not noticable.The level design is very well done, and requires skill and thought, where you cant just sprint and jump through the obstacles and enemys, and it contains lots of funny and very creative themes to them.As you progress through the game, you gain abilities like flying, shrinking and diving, and you always end up using one or the other after unlocking them, so kudos to Ubisoft for not forgetting that they implement some features and forgetting to actually make you use them.the game took me about 10 hours; its not very long but its definately worth its 10 dollar price tag.I recommend the game to any platforming fan, and ofcourse, Rayman fan, but dont expect anything like the 3D games.

In conclusion, i really like the game, its fun, its intuitive in the current market, and its Rayman, meaning it contains lots of humor and an interesting storyline (although kinda confusing at times).Its not the Rayman i wanted, but its still very fun.

P.S. it also contains a local co-op options, but since i'm lonely, i couldn't really try it, so i didn't write about it, but i bet it would be lots of fun.

Beautiful and fun game that's quite accessible even to people who suck at platformers (like me), however if you're not really good & don't like replaying levels to get better rating you won't get access to last levels of the latter areas. I personally ended on the fight with the red boss that you unlock at 90 pink-lady-things and just didn't feel like trying over and over again so I quit. Which is not really a problem since there's not really a story so I don't feel like I missed something that would tarnish my enjoyment of this game.

+ controls feel ok+ stages are beautiful+ characters are cute, especially the wizard thing dude+ good music (personally I liked the music from the water stages the most)+ no uPlay if that bothers you+ you can get through most of this game even if you're not good at platformers

- but if you're not good there are some frustrating parts... well, that was pretty much expected though so~